A Dhaka court has acquitted former chairman of Public Service Commission (PSC) Prof Dr Mohammad Mustafa Chowdhury along with a member and two officials of charges of recommending illegally four people for jobs in different cadres of the civil service.
Divisional Special Judge of Dhaka Mohammad Abdul Majid dismissed all the four cases against Mustafa, former PSC member Farhad Hossain Khan, controller Kabirul Alam Khan and director Sharifuddin Ahmed Khan in separate judgments, court officials said.
The then Anti-Corruption Bureau filed the four cases in 2002 accusing the four in each of the cases of nominating three “fake” freedom fighters and a tribesman with “fake academic certificate” for jobs in different cadres of the civil service.
Mustafa and the three others obtained a stay order against the cases from the High Court in the same year. The cases were later shifted to the divisional judge's court.
The court found the three freedom fighters' certificates valid but the academic certificate submitted by the tribesman fake.
However, the tribesman was imprisoned for 17 years for the forgery.
Mustafa, former faculty member of political science department of Dhaka University and an ex-president of Dhaka University Teachers Association (Duta), served as the chairman of the PSC from 1998 to 2002.